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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Border Patrol, Library Style
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has a somewhat unique situation: it straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Now, according to this article in the Washington Times, the U.S. Border Patrol is cracking down on those who cross the border to … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Maps, News
Tagged Haskell, Library Style The
Haskell Free Library, Library Style The
Haskell Free Library, the Washington Times;, U.S.-Canadian border, United States, Washington Times
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Giving Knowledge for Free
Giving Knowledge for Free : The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (Pdf, 153 pages) is a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)‘s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation which details the state of open access education. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access
Tagged Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Open Educational Resources, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
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Freebase article on OpenBusiness
Freebase is a new project which I described in a posting last March. OpenBusiness recently ran an interview on their blog with the sites founders. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design, Wiki
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Pipl
Pipl is a search engine geared towards finding people, but it casts a wider net than other people search tools. It searches social networking sites, job sites, and blogs. As you might guess, there are usually a lot of results … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged search engine, social networking sites, web presence
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Wide Open Education
Wide Open Education is a new blog from the Online Education Database. Each of these links is well worth following: you will find great information and resources related to the open education movement on either. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Education, Online Services
Tagged Online Education Database
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Geonames
Geonames is an online database of places. Type in the name of a place, be it a town, city, geographic feature, or landmark, and you get a list of places with that name. Want to know how many places in … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Search, Travel
Tagged Anytown, Colorado, Illinois, online database
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Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian
Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian is written by Daniel Chudnov at One Big Library, and is an excellent essay with good advice for anyone exploring new ways to do things in libraries. I can vouch for a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Advice, Daniel Chudnov, experienced geek librarian, One Big Library, slightly less experienced geek librarian
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Plantfacts
PlantFacts is a resource from the Ohio State University which provides a wealth of information about plants and horticulture through a plant web search, an image database, how-to videos, a collection of over 800 FAQs, and an illustrated glossary. from … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Online Databases, Search, WebSearch
Tagged plant web search, the Ohio State University
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Cross Language Web Search
Google Translate has a new feature: it will allow you to search foreign language pages using your language’s search terms, and translates the results on the fly. As with all machine translation, the results will vary; the interface is well … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, machine translation, search terms, Web Search
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BibMe
BibMe is a great site for locating and generating bibliographic citations in MLA, APA and Chicago styles, which you can then download to your computer, or store on their server (if you sign up for a free account). In their … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search
Tagged Amazon, Amazon DVD & VHS from BiblioTech Web, Chicago, Web page parser, Web page parser Journal, Yahoo
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Libraries and Zombies
The folks at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana bring you this public service announcement: Video Contest Submission-Allen County Public Libraryfrom blyberg.net
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Video
Tagged Allen County Public Library, Contest Submission-Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
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It’s a Wiki… It’s a Skymap…
It’s WikiSky! Ideal for answering the question “was that object in the western sky a star or planet?”, as well as many other star / constellation type questions. It also includes photographs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Open Access, Space, Wiki
Tagged Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious new project aimed at creating an online reference for all 1.8 million species of life. The encylopedia would have multiple user levels (from “novice” to “expert”), multimedia, and interactive means of exploring related species. from … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Search
Tagged online reference
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LibraryThing for Libraries
LibraryThing for Libraries has launched! Without needing to alter your existing ILS software beyond a few lines of javascript in your OPAC’s page footer, you can add the following functionality to your book catalog: Links to other editions and translations. Links to “similar books”. … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Connecticut, Danbury Library
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Bibliographic news
A couple things of note are happening in the realm of bibliographic information: The Library of Congress will be holding their second regional meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control on Wednesday, May 9th. This one … Continue reading
Lighthouse Library
Last summer I visited Daytona Beach in Florida. One of the many interesting places I visited was the Ponce de Leon Light Station at Mosquito Inlet. They had an example of one of the “libraries” that were used by those … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Travel
Tagged Daytona Beach, Florida, Mosquito Inlet, Ponce de Leon Light Station
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Ok… not on hiatus
Due to some really time-consuming activities over the next two months, I had thought that it would not be possible to make time to update the LibrarySupportStaff.org blog as it should be. However, after a couple of weeks away from … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs
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